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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / center console/armrest what the hell ever...
thanks guys,but my car audio/stereo guru buddy is going to just glass a custom console for me to house my cheetah shifter and various switches/ status led's needed.


i was hoping this was just a bolt in and go ordeal,my cars a factory full console car,but the previous owner chopped it all to hell,and i dont know why...

this isnt the best pic to show,but yo uget the idea of what was done.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / speedo cable needed
Speedometer cables may be purchased at your local auto parts store. Auto Meter speedometers come with a standard 5/8" x 18 threaded cable input that requires a .104" sq. male drive. The speedometer is calibrated for a 1:1 drive ratio (1,000 RPM at 60 MPH input at the speedometer head.)


that was taken from autometers website.....
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / speedo cable needed
yes it has autometers in it. but when the cable snapped,i texted the guy asking if it was the stock cable to the car {he claims they have had it since new} and he told me yes,its the stock cable..

ugh,think ill hit up autometer and see what they say.

the car has a c4 trans in it now,after looking around,the c4/t5/aod cables are all the same. leave it to ford to do some backwoods shiznit like this,my 93 mustang has a speedo cable...yet this OLDER 88 cougar had electronic? hah.

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User Rides / 347 Stroker Build
find a 87-92 shortblock and just boost it or spray it,i wouldnt waste the money on internals,when your just going to split the block into bits around the 500+ mark.

plenty of people have gone into the tens,and into the 9s on a bonestock shortblock.

DONT waste the money unless your putting all the goodies into an r block/dart block. you wouldnt build a house on a jello foundation would you?
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User Rides / Few shots of the SBF in my cougar..







after alot of tuning,and a brand new demon....this mofookie runs GOOD. i ordered my N20 setup for it on friday,should have it here mid week...and just after new years its getting trailered down to florida with my buddy's rx7 with a SBC v8,going to try and get both cars dialed in.

next weekend im taking the junk cam/heads off this motor and putting my afr heads and anderson ford motorsport cam,should wake it up quite nicely. the 3.73 gear and brandn ew c4 with tbrake did a WORLD of wonders to wake this car up
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Body/Appearance/Interior / to whomever say's that mustang seats bolt into these cars....
Quote from: vinnietbird;246167
Can you post a pic of your seats?Is there any chance they were sold to you as Mustang seats when in fact they may not be,or do you know for a fact that they came from a Fox Stang?Just checking all the angles of the situation.





they are the original seats from my 66k mile 93 LX 5.0
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Body/Appearance/Interior / to whomever say's that mustang seats bolt into these cars....
Quote from: V8Demon;246135
Looks like Chuck hit it on the head...



The statement above after NUMEROUS threads on this topic over the years has painted some people here that very picture...It was quite a bold statement that contradicted what is known to be true. You came off as quite pen 15y in the process as well.

Quit complaining, accept the fact that you were wrong, re-buttstuffyze the situation with the info provided in this thread (and perhaps search the site a little) and make it work for you.


hmm,well i have proven that a stock mustang seat,will not just BOLT straight into a tbird/cougar...

maybe mines the one off car...who knows though.

like i said,i will post pics this weekend to show how off they are.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / to whomever say's that mustang seats bolt into these cars....
Quote from: Chuck W;246132
No the funny thing is that you are assuming EVERYONE else is wrong, and there is NO WAY anyone could have EVER bolted Mustang seats onto their Tbird seat tracks.  How many people have replied saying that they have?

I've bolted them up to power and non-power tracks.  Some were bolt-in and go, and as Eric mentioned (and reminded me) some required you to perhaps drill and/or tap an existing hole.  I think at the very least there are dimples in seat bases already for where the holes would go.

The Recaros will be a no go if you don't have the adapters used by the factory.  You'll have 2 holes in the front and one on the back of each side of the seat bases.  My '80 XR-7 with the factory Recaros had the adapter brackets, I had to build some for the '83 when I installed Recaros in it.

You claim to not be a newb...but you're letting 1-1/2" foil you on bolting seats in the car???
after a search before i even posted this thread,i have read its possible...but its all over the map..

some bolt right up,some need fabwork.

far from a newb...but why am i going to fab up adapter plates,for subpar seats...if im going to do that,its going to be for a pair of aftmkt recaros/spearcos or soemthing alike..

this weekend i will post pics as to how off it really is.
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Body/Appearance/Interior / to whomever say's that mustang seats bolt into these cars....
Quote from: Chuck W;245769
What did I say the first time around about the Recaros?  NO RECARO WILL BOLT UP W/O ADAPTERS....PERIOD.  Even in a Mustang adapter rails were used to get then to mate to the stock tracks. You have those adapters, they will bolt to the stock Ford seat rails.

On the Mustang seats, you were obviously loking at something crosseyed.  I have installed Mustang seats in all of my Tbirds/Cougars at some point in time with power or manual tracks with NO mods at all.

uhm.... ok then genius your not to far away from me,hows this sound.

you can take the FACTORY leather/tweed seats out of my 90s hatch lx,and try to bolt them up to the factory powerseat track in my 88 cougar.

ill pay for your gas...and give you 500 bucks if you can make it work with no cutting/fabbing,just a bolt on and go deal..funnier thing is,your coming into this conversation just asuming im like a newb at building vehicles...or that i am young.

the powerseat track in my cougar has no cut/weld marks...im fairly certain it has NOT been modified at all.

the front bolts will line up,the rear bolts however...are off by about an inch and a half
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Body/Appearance/Interior / to whomever say's that mustang seats bolt into these cars....
Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;245779
Here's the seats outta mine, and I had to tap the 2 holes on the back of each seat's base to bolt on the Thunderbird brackets.
These came out of the ASC/McLaren Capri I had...

I guess it just depends on if your back holes are threaded.
(that sounds perverted, aye?) :evilgrin:


those are the same seats i have.